Here’s a fact: if you bought $1—yes, one single dollar—of bitcoin in March 2013, it would be worth some $6 million today. Joyce Kim, who has been in the cryptocurrency game since its very beginning, joins us this week to explain what is really going on with all these nascent forms of digital money: why they are rising, why they are falling, and why they are doing so with such unprecedented velocity and volatility. (And, also, whether that $6 million will be worth $60 million, or nothing, in a year or two.)

On the latest episode of Inside the Hive, Kim extrapolates on whether we are in a bitcoin bubble, and why all the nerds in Silicon Valley just can’t stop talking about it.

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